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OCCULT COUNTRY MUSIC (Feat. Sean McCann) · Cosmic Peach

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  Speaker 3: Trigger Warner, This podcast may include explicit content that will
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  Speaker 3: take you out of your comfort zone and make you
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  Speaker 3: question reality. Listener's discretion is advised.
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  Speaker 1: So I recently just put out an episode I think
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  Speaker 1: it was maybe two weeks ago where I've been kind
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  Speaker 1: of like depressed and I wanted to reinvigorate myself. So
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  Speaker 1: I started looking back into the Laurel Canyons somewhere. And
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  Speaker 1: I've said this so many times, but there isn't enough
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  Speaker 1: research you can do, and it's too big for one person.
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  Speaker 1: Even it's too big for just me to cover it
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  Speaker 1: and find everything. But something that you had texted me
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  Speaker 1: about that caught my attention is there is another Laurel
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  Speaker 1: Canyon esque type of movement that went on in Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: with Nashville. And I don't know about you, Sean, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm a huge country music lover and I grew up
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  Speaker 1: listening to all of those artists. I mean, my family
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  Speaker 1: is a bunch of Hicks, but we all listen to
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  Speaker 1: country even to this day. And I feel like this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be triggering.
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  Speaker 3: For me very good. I'm very happy for that, because
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  Speaker 3: like that, when it's when you're triggered. That means that
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  Speaker 3: you're eroding away the old ideas that need to be
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  Speaker 3: cleaned out. You know. My friend Mark Devlin says no
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  Speaker 3: more heroes, and it's really true. I kept trying to
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  Speaker 3: cling on to Roger Waters, you know, and then I
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  Speaker 3: heard quote Roger Waters saying that Bill Gates is a hero.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, okay, even though he's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: fighting for Palestine, like God bless him, somebody has to like.
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  Speaker 3: But it's it's still depressing, you know. You got to know.
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  Speaker 3: We shouldn't have heroes anymore. And we are all unique individuals,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and I think that we should recognize our
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  Speaker 3: own power and what we we can do, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the world, instead of looking at others and be
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  Speaker 3: like they're great. Oh, they're they're great. You know. We
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  Speaker 3: can all create music, we can all like whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I literally have a piano behind me right now.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, So I grew up in a super musical family.
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  Speaker 1: We all play, we all sing, and we all were like,
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  Speaker 1: we sang in church a lot too. But my mom
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  Speaker 1: had a country music band and she sang Reba McIntyre
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  Speaker 1: and dressed like Riba. I was so cute. And that's
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  Speaker 1: actually where she met my dad and then they kind
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  Speaker 1: of formed a new country music band together and it
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  Speaker 1: was called Whiskey River and now here I am. And
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  Speaker 1: it's all because of love for country music. I did
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  Speaker 1: grow up listening to all the greats, you know, Loretta Lynn,
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  Speaker 1: Crystal Gale, all of them. I love country music. So
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  Speaker 1: rip my heart out, Sean, put it on a platter,
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  Speaker 1: stab it and bleed it out.
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  Speaker 3: This is a wonderful place to start because the family
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  Speaker 3: connection is really the root of what is being attacked
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  Speaker 3: with this whole genre that was created. And we can
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  Speaker 3: talk about the creation of it, but really, when you
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  Speaker 3: look back at country music where it started, you can find, well,
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  Speaker 3: I guess it started with the colored music, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the they would make black records and stuff, and then
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  Speaker 3: they started promoting they like, well, it was like yodeling
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  Speaker 3: and like picking guitar and banjo and that's that type
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  Speaker 3: of thing. And the banjo originated in Africa, Like that's
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  Speaker 3: an African instrument, come to hear, So it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: a melding of those. But really it kicked off when
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  Speaker 3: they took a hold of it and they started to
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  Speaker 3: create this thing and this what I mean by this
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  Speaker 3: thing is like the the original band, Like what we
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  Speaker 3: would listen to is like the Carter family, right, and
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  Speaker 3: that is a like a real family singing together, playing
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  Speaker 3: wholesome music about love and tradition and like all these
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  Speaker 3: things good family, right, And that they gave us that
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  Speaker 3: to latch onto, and that right there replaced our own family,
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  Speaker 3: which is weird to say, but if you think about it,
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  Speaker 3: in the time of the Carter family and before that,
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  Speaker 3: it was there was the the inception of the radio,
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  Speaker 3: and everybody had a radio in their house during the
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  Speaker 3: depression because they couldn't afford to buy the records, right,
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  Speaker 3: And so in the old days, like my grandmother included
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  Speaker 3: she had many instruments. There would be a music room
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  Speaker 3: where people would play music. Your family together would play
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  Speaker 3: music like on a Sunday or something. Everybody get together
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  Speaker 3: and sing and play. And that's one of the things,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, we were all taught music, and it's
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  Speaker 3: another way of thinking. It's another language. It's like artistic
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's wonderful to help children grow in their
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  Speaker 3: minds and all that, and to be part of it
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  Speaker 3: and to know that they're making that music is something
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  Speaker 3: very special. And that's been the tradition in America since
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  Speaker 3: you know, we cut the wilderness. You know, the Irish
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  Speaker 3: Scotch Irish would you know, would bring their folk music,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and they would would that would collaborate with
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  Speaker 3: the slave music, and it created this new thing, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Appalachian music. And so this is this is the history,
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  Speaker 3: right and so they they gave us the radio, and
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you have this box in your
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  Speaker 3: house that can make more beautiful music than your family
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  Speaker 3: could ever try to write. And instead of playing the music,
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  Speaker 3: you all sit around and listen. So you're passive now,
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  Speaker 3: and then you're put in this state of just receiving.
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  Speaker 3: And it almost like what the television has become, Like
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  Speaker 3: the television branched off from the radio like it started
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  Speaker 3: with the radio. And so this box is in everybody's
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  Speaker 3: house and it's giving everybody the same music, and it's
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  Speaker 3: giving everybody the fireside chats of FDR, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: like FDR is Grandpa telling us what to do and
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  Speaker 3: how to think, you know. And then if you think
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  Speaker 3: about that image of RCA the nipper Dog, the logo
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  Speaker 3: it says his master's voice, and there's a picture of
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  Speaker 3: a dog listening to a gramophone like the original Victor
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  Speaker 3: talking music recording like for records, and it's listening, and
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  Speaker 3: it's like wow, So that's an obedient slave listening. A
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  Speaker 3: dog is you know, listens to his master. And what
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  Speaker 3: is coming through the radio waves. It's instructions and a
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  Speaker 3: new worldview and you know, uh, softening people up to
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  Speaker 3: the socialism that is the FDR generation and the New
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  Speaker 3: Deal and all of that, you know, convincing people to
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  Speaker 3: accept this government as daddy. You know, So this has
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  Speaker 3: the when then you look at okay, well that's that
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  Speaker 3: if you look at the beginning of radio, it started
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  Speaker 3: as a propaganda tool for war and in like during
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  Speaker 3: the First World War. Like it says that Marconi invented
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  Speaker 3: the radio. Really Tesla did, but Marconi like patented the thing.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know, there's a whole thing to look
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  Speaker 3: into there. But so there was this American Marconi company
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  Speaker 3: that was created to take over all of the holdings
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  Speaker 3: of the So the Navy owned all the radio stations
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  Speaker 3: during wartime and in this way, they like before the radio,
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  Speaker 3: the only way you could propagandize the enemy is to
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  Speaker 3: fly a plane over there. And drop leaflets on the
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  Speaker 3: enemy territory like piece of paper, like they put pornography
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  Speaker 3: or some words or something, and that is like how
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  Speaker 3: they could infiltrate the enemy's space, right, And then they
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  Speaker 3: got this radio thing which they can transmit from home
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  Speaker 3: across the border into the enemy territory. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: that was big and like you know, world War two,
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  Speaker 3: they were calling him g I Joe because the Japanese
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  Speaker 3: would hear the radio and the soldiery they they would
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  Speaker 3: consider the soldiers all be named Joe, just like they're
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  Speaker 3: all Charlie or in Vietnam. It's it's this weird thing
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  Speaker 3: because the radio programmed them and they so the Japanese
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  Speaker 3: heard the radio that was there. And another thing, the
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  Speaker 3: soldiers they played country music during World War two over
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  Speaker 3: in the Eastern Front, and I don't know about in
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  Speaker 3: Europe also, but the soldiers coming home from war, all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden they like country music because it was
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  Speaker 3: like fed to them on a steady basis on the
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  Speaker 3: megaphones and their little base or whatever. So that's legit,
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  Speaker 3: that's for real.
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  Speaker 1: So that was like the soundtrack for the.
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  Speaker 3: War kind of yeah. Interesting, yeah, and it had like
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  Speaker 3: a binding together it's like the American music, right. So
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  Speaker 3: that's and that's during the late thirties and forties, right,
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  Speaker 3: So that's after they had the Electrification Act of nineteen
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  Speaker 3: thirty six, and that was an FDR thing where for safety,
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  Speaker 3: you know, which is always like lose freedom and it's
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  Speaker 3: an attack on us, but for safety, in quotes, the
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  Speaker 3: government installed electric wires to every house in every barn.
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  Speaker 3: And that's like all across Appalachia, all the southern all
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  Speaker 3: the poor South were given electricity, like a light in
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  Speaker 3: every kitchen and a lamp in every barn. Whatever. So
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  Speaker 3: because they used to use kerosene and it was a
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  Speaker 3: fire hazard and whatever. So the government come to save
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  Speaker 3: us again, right, So they swooped in and they electrified
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  Speaker 3: the South. And then there's been this thing, this WSM
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  Speaker 3: Barn Dance that was happening, and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: they juiced it up with fifty thousand watts and it
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  Speaker 3: was broadcasting to like thirty states and with these new
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  Speaker 3: radios that everybody was buying, it was all static until
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  Speaker 3: you hit the WSM, which is now known as the
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  Speaker 3: Grand Ole Opry. Yes it is, so you're familiar with that,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure, Yes, so this was huge. This is what
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  Speaker 3: unified the culture. So the grand Ole became very cult
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  Speaker 3: like actually that too, Yeah, yeah, so like it. The
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  Speaker 3: grand Ole opry created this, the clothing scene, they created
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  Speaker 3: the terminology used, they created the stereotypes.
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  Speaker 4: Of like what Hill people are like and what you know,
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  Speaker 4: the fumbling, fumbling, chiotic racist this that now, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it still goes on to this day and we can
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  Speaker 4: get into that later, but I do have a question
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  Speaker 4: for you.
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  Speaker 1: Sure it kind of goes along with this exact moment
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  Speaker 1: in time. Did you ever watch the movie O Brother
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  Speaker 1: where art thou?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Good movie, yes, And that to me is this moment
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  Speaker 1: in time because they go to make the record and
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  Speaker 1: the guy's blind and he's like, we're three black eyes
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  Speaker 1: and the guy who had sold his soul to the
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  Speaker 1: devil played the guitar for him. And he's based off
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  Speaker 1: of Robert Johnson, who was the blues player who sold
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  Speaker 1: his soul to the devil to play guitar. But the
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  Speaker 1: soundtrack for that movie is like the soundtrack of my life,
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  Speaker 1: all those old gospel hymn knowles and country music, the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning of country. I grew up listening to that
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  Speaker 1: and it the way that they market it to people
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  Speaker 1: is almost like Christian music is close to Godliness in
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  Speaker 1: some way, and it does like give me the chill
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when I listen to it, Like I just, it
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  Speaker 1: just takes you back to it's sentimental nostalgia, and so
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  Speaker 1: when I hear it, I do feel all the feels
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  Speaker 1: like when I was a kid, and oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I love this song. But that movie just made me think.
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  Speaker 1: They put so many little things in there, like oh,
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  Speaker 1: black guys weren't allowed to be on the radio because
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  Speaker 1: they even advertised it as like four black guys on
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  Speaker 1: the Run or something like that, and they'd put they
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  Speaker 1: did black face at the end of the movie and
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  Speaker 1: walked in there at the clan rally, And I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just interesting to me that moment in time where
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  Speaker 1: the radio was so new and they wanted it to
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  Speaker 1: be wholesome and what they considered to be like Riskue
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  Speaker 1: was a black person singing country right, like I just
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  Speaker 1: it was. It's a weird time in life.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, well, there was eugenics laws back then.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they were like sterilizing the feeble minded, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there was a lot of evil going on
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  Speaker 3: at those times.
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